Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110503:08:26:00
Meters of gas and vast quantities of carbon dioxide, providing massive potential for energy, but also catastrophe. what that means is that the deep water gas, if it gets to a certain saturation point, could well up to the surface and go into the atmosphere. it last happened in 1986. it blanketed the region with carbon dioxide with devastating effect. scientists believe that by extracting methane, the risk of a similar disaster here is far less likely. but lenders have been slow to finance methane gas projects. >> it is quite frustrating because the time line that we have is not necessarily the...